Environmental biofilms as reservoirs for antimicrobial resistance

G Flores-Vargas, J Bergsveinson… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Characterizing the response of microbial communities to a range of antibiotic concentrations
is one of the strategies used to understand the impact of antibiotic resistance. Many studies …

Next-generation food research: Use of meta-omic approaches for characterizing microbial communities along the food chain

M Yap, D Ercolini, A Álvarez-Ordóñez… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Microorganisms exist along the food chain and impact the quality and safety of foods in both
positive and negative ways. Identifying and understanding the behavior of these microbial …

mobileOG-db: a manually curated database of protein families mediating the life cycle of bacterial mobile genetic elements

CL Brown, J Mullet, F Hindi, JE Stoll… - Applied and …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bacterial mobile genetic elements (MGEs) encode functional modules that perform both core
and accessory functions for the element, the latter of which are often only transiently …

[HTML][HTML] Metagenomic profiling and transfer dynamics of antibiotic resistance determinants in a full-scale granular sludge wastewater treatment plant

D Calderón-Franco, R Sarelse, S Christou, M Pronk… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract In the One Health context, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are central to
safeguarding water resources. Nonetheless, many questions remain about their …

[HTML][HTML] Viral diversity and potential environmental risk in microplastic at watershed scale: Evidence from metagenomic analysis of plastisphere

R Li, L Zhu, L Cui, YG Zhu - Environment international, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) have been considered as a new vector for the long-distance transport of
pathogens in aquatic ecosystems. However, the composition of viral communities attached …

Combined effects of composting and antibiotic administration on cattle manure–borne antibiotic resistance genes

I Keenum, RK Williams, P Ray, ED Garner… - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Background Research is needed to delineate the relative and combined effects of different
antibiotic administration and manure management practices in either amplifying or …

Effects of co-selection of antibiotic-resistance and metal-resistance genes on antibiotic-resistance potency of environmental bacteria and related ecological risk factors

AB Engin, ED Engin, A Engin - Environmental Toxicology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The inadequate elimination of micropollutants in wastewater treatment plants (WWTP),
cause to increase in the incidence of antibiotic resistant bacterial strains. Growth of microbial …

Metagenomic-based surveillance systems for antibiotic resistance in non-clinical settings

S Pillay, D Calderón-Franco, A Urhan… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The success of antibiotics as a therapeutic agent has led to their ineffectiveness. The
continuous use and misuse in clinical and non-clinical areas have led to the emergence and …

Deciphering environmental resistome and mobilome risks on the stone monument: A reservoir of antimicrobial resistance genes

J He, N Zhang, X Shen, A Muhammad… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the environment has attracted increasing attention as an
emerging global threat to public health. Stone is an essential ecosystem in nature and also …

Metagenomic evidence for antibiotics-driven co-evolution of microbial community, resistome and mobilome in hospital sewage

J Sun, Y Yuan, L Cai, M Zeng, X Li, F Yao, W Chen… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Overconsumption of antibiotics is an immediate cause for the emergence of antimicrobial
resistance (AMR) and antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB), though its environmental impact …